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portada Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving new York
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2012
Language
English
Pages
464
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0767926196
ISBN13
9780767926195
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving new York

Richard Zacks (Author) · Anchor · Paperback

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving new York - Richard Zacks

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Synopsis "Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving new York "

In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-educated Roosevelt, with a reformer’s zeal, tried to wipe out the city’s vice and corruption. He went head-to-head with Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles looking for derelict cops, banned barroom drinking on Sundays and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun.  The city rebelled big time; cartoonists lampooned him on the front page; his own political party abandoned him but Roosevelt never backed down. Island of Vice delivers a rollicking narrative history of Roosevelt’s embattled tenure, pitting the seedy against the saintly, and the city against its would-be savior.

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